Vat dyestuff derived from anthraquinone and process of making same



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BERTRAM MAYER, KOSEB, AND JAKOB Ftl'IRG'IIER OF BASEL, SWITZER- LAND,-ASSIGNOBS '10 SOCIETY 01' CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN BASLE, 'swrzrzisusznema..v v v VAT DYES'IUII DERIVED FROM ANTHRAQUINONE AND PROCESS OF MAKING BAKE.

no Drawing. Application Med May 25, 1923. Serial No. 641,508.

To all whom it may concern: or

-Be it known that we, BERTRAM MAYE citizen of the Swiss Republic, Wrumm Mosnn, citizen of the, German Republic, and I JAKOB Wr'iRoLER, citizen of the Swiss Republic, all three residing at Basel, Switzerland, have invented new and useful 'Vat Dyestuffs Derived from Anthraquinone and Process of Making Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specifica-,

tion.

This invention relates to an improvement in or modification of thatdescribed in Patent 1 436370 of November 28th, 1922. According to that invention a derivative of or betanaphthoquinone containing removable substitue'nts iscaused to react with an alphaaminoanthraquinone compound, and con-j densing the resulting product of condensation with an 'orthodiaminoanthraquinone.

= i In the course of further investigations it has been found that in the first phase of this reaction the alpha-aminoanthraquinone is always fixed only in the 4-positionof the changeable substituent may or may not be in v this it-position. Contraril to the statements of the aforesaid patent, there are produced intermedlate products of the iormula-, hi h are th condensed i th Second phase with orthodiaminoanthraquinones .to

the corresponding quinoxalines.

According to the present invention the derivative' of betanaphthoquinone which contains a mobile substituent is first condensed with the orthodiaminoanthraquinone 'and the product is then caused to react with the monoor di-alphaaminoanthraquinones new dyestuffs being obtained The constitution of these dyestufi's, as in-the case of the prodnets of the aforesaid invention, is probably characterized by the presence of anthraqu1- .none-betanaphthazine complexes united by an N-H group to an anthraquinone nu-' ferentiated therefrom by the fact that they dissolve in concentrated sulfuric acid to brown solutions also that they ield with hydrosulfite and caustic soda a rown vat dyestufi' by means of which cotton may be dyed brown tints.

The following examples illustrate the invention, without limiting it, the parts being by weight:-

Example 1.

v 18' parts of 6-bromo-1:Q-naphthoquinone and 15 parts of 2:3-diaminoanthraquinone are introduced into 180 parts of glacial acetic acid and the mixture is slowly heated, while continuously stirring, to 90100 O. The mixture is kept at thistemperature While continuing the stirring until the reaction is finished it is then allowed to cool and'filtered the residue is copiously washed with hot water and dried. There is thus obtained a greenish-yellow powder which dissolves in'concentrated sulfuric acid to a bluish-violet solution.

A mixtureof 9 parts of this product, 6 parts of alphaaminoanthraquinone, 6 parts of anhydrous sodium acetate, 0.5 part of anhydrous cupric chloride and 300 parts of nitrobenzene is boiled for" 16 hours in a reflux apparatus; After cooling the solid matter is suction-filtered, washed successively with alcohol, with dilute hydrochloric acid and with-hot water, and is then dried.

The dyestufi' thus obtained isa brown-- red powder which dissolves with great difficulty in nitrobenzene, yielding a red so-.

lution. It dissolves in concentrated sulfuric acid to a brown solution which when diluted with water yields a fiocculent red precipitate. The'newdyestufi yields with hydrosulfite and caustic soda a brown vat which dyes cotton strong reddish-brown tints of excellent fastness.

By substituting in this example 1:5-di

ammoanthraquinone for alphaaminoanthraquinone there is obtained a product which is a little more bluish while the use of 1 2- diaminoanthraquinone in place of 2:3-diaminoanthraqumone leads to aviolet brown.

Ewample while continuously stirring to 90-100 The mixture is kept at this temperature,

while stirring, until the reaction is finished.

It is then allowed to cool" and filtered; the solid matter is washed copiously with hot water and dried. There is thus obtained a greenish-yellow powder which dissolvesin concentrated sulfuric acid to a red solution.

A mixture of 9 parts of this product, 6 parts of alphaaminoanthraquinone, 6 parts of anhydrous sodium acetate, 0.5 part of 'cupric chloride and 300 parts-of nitrobenzone is boiled for '16 hours in a reflux apparatus; after cooling the solid matter is suction-filtered, washed successively. with alcohol, with dilute hydrochloric acid and with hot water, and is then dried.

The new dyestuff is a bluish-red powderwhich dissolves in concentrated sulfuric acid to a reddlsh-brown solution, from which the addition of water precipitates the dyestufi in reddish black 'flocks. .It yields with hydrosulfite and caustic soda a red-brown vat, which dyes cotton greya ish-brown tints of excellent fastness.

By substituting 1:- 5-diaminoanthraquinone for alphaaminoanthraquinone in this example an analogous product is obtained.

The U. "S. Patent 1,436,770 describes a process consisting in treating in a first phase a derivative of the 1.2-naphthoquinone, which still contains in the naphthalene nucleus an interchangeable substituent, with an alphaaminoanthraquinone and in condensing thereupon the obtained product w th an ortho-diamino-anthraquinone.

It was supposed at that time that in the first base the interchangeable substituent would be replaced by the radical of alphaaminoanthraquinone, according to the following formulae:

(1) NH: .O

GINA

" Applicantsffurther investigations, however, ihavexproved that this supposition was correct in the case of the 1.2-naphthoquinonet-sulfonic acid, but they show also that in the case of the 6-br0mo-12-naphthoquinone or of the 3-bromo-1.2-naphthoquinone the reactiontakes -place according to the following formula:

i i I (whereby the oxygen is furnished on the expense of a part of the naphthoquinone present, this reaction being, as is well known, characteristic for quinones); If

this intermediate product is condensed with an ortho-diaminoanthraq uinone, for example with the 2.3-diam1noanthraquinone, there is obtained a bromo-containing dyestufi of the following constitution:

It results therefrom that all the final dye.-'

YYIO 4 stuffs of Patent 1,436,770 are characterized by the common atomic grouping:

Now, if the reaction on 6-bromo-1.2-naphthoquinone is performed not with the alphaaminoanthraquinone, but with the orthodlaminoanthraqumone, the naphthoquinone is caused to react as ortho-diketone'under formation of a quinoxaline in, the follow-V 1ng manner:

l I i W W Yd When the thus obtained intermediate product is condensed with alpha-aminoanthraquinone, there results, contrarily to the roduct of the processof Patent 1,436,? 7 0, a

yestufi' free from bromine, which no more dyes the cotton red tints, but which yields 'a brown tint; this dyestufi' corresponds to the following constitution:

What we claim is: 1. The herein described process for the manufacture of new vat dyestuffs derived from anthraquinone, consisting in condensing the derivatives of betanaphthoquinone containing mobile substituents with 1 molecular proportion of an orthodiaminoan-- thraquinone, then causing the compound thus formed to react with-an alphaaminoanthraquinone. 1

' 2.' The herein described process for the manufacture of new vat dyestuffs derived from anthraquinone, consisting in condensingsthe derivatives of betanaphthoquinone formed to react with a mono-alphaaminoan- .thra uinone.

he herein described process for the manufacture of new vat dyestuffs derived from anthraquinone, consisting in condensing the derivatives of bctanaphthoquinone containing mobile substituents in aposition other than the t-position with 1 molecular proportion of 2z3-diaminoanthraquinone, then causing the compound thus formed to react with a mono-alphaaininoanthraquinone.

4. The herein described process for the.

manufacture of new vat dyestuffs derived from anthraquinone, consisting in condensing the G-bromo-l:2-naphthoquinone with 1 molecular proportion of 2:3-diaminoanthraquinone, then causing the compound thus formed to react with a mono-alphauminoanthraquinone.

- 5. The herein described process for the manufacture of a new vat dyestuff'dcrived from anthraquinone, consisting in condensing the 6-bromo-1:Q-naphthoquinone with 1 molecular proportion of 2:3-diaminoanthraquinone, then causing the compound thus formed to react with alphaaniinoanthraquinonc.

6. The herein described new vat dyestuffs resulting from the action of alphaaminoanthraquinones on the products of condensation of an orthodiaminoanthraquinoue with a betanaphthoquinone containing mobile substituents in a position other than the 4-position, dyestuffs whose constitution is probably characterized by the presence of anthraquinone-beta-naphthazine complexes united by an' NH group to an anthraquinone nucleus, one of the nitrogen valences being fixed in any position which is different from the 4-position of the naphthalene nucleus of the anthraquinones beta-naphthazine, and the other in an alphaposition of the second anthraquinone nucleus, the said dyestuffs constituting dark red-brown powders, insoluble in water, soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid to brown solutions, yielding with hydrosulfite and caustic soda brown vats which dye cotton strong-and fast tints varying from reddish-brown to violet-brown.

7. The herein described new vat dyestuffs resulting from the action of a mono-alphaaminoanthraquinone on the products of condensation of an orthodiaminoanthraquinone with a betanaphthoquinone containing mobile substituents in a position other than the 4-position, dyestuffs whose constitution is probably. characterized by the presence of an anthraquinone-beta-naphthazino complex united by an NH group to an anthraquinone nucleus, one of the nithrogen naphthalene nucleus of the anthraquinone beta-naphthazine, and the other in an alphaposition of the second anthraquinone nucleus, the said dyestuffs constituting dark red-brown powders, insoluble in water, soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid to brown solutions, yielding with hydrosulfite and caustic soda brown vats which dye cotton strong and fast tints-varying from reddishbrown to violet-brown.

8. The herein described new vat dyestuffs resulting from the action of a mono-alphaaminoanthraquinone on the productsof condensation of the 2:3-diaminoanthraquinone with a betanaphthoquinone containing mobile substituents in a position other than the 4-position, dyestuffs whose constitution is probably characterized by the presence of an anthraquinone-beta-naphthazine complex united by an NH group to an anthraquinone nucleus, one of the nitrogen valences being fixed in any position which is different from the i-position of the naphthalene nucleus of the anthraquinone beta-naphthazine, and the other in analphaposition of the second anthraquinonc nucleus, the-said dyestuffs constituting dark red-brown powders, insoluble in Water, soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid to brown solutions, yielding with hydrosulfite and. caustic soda brown vats which dye cot-- ton strong and fast tints varying from reddish-brown to violet-brown.

9. The herein described new Vat dyestuffs resulting from the action of a mono-alphaaminoanthraquinone on the product of condensation of the 2:3-dia1ninoanthraquinone with the G-bromo-l:Q-naphthoquinone, dyestuffs whose constitution is probably characterized by the presence 'of an anthraquinonebeta-naphthazine complex united by an N-H group to an anthraquinone nucleus, one of the nitrogen valences being fixed in the 6-position of the naphthalenenucle'us of the anthraquinone-bcta-naphthazine, and the other in an alpha-position of the second anthraquinone nucleus, the said dyestuffs constituting dark red-brown powders, insoluble in Water, soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid to brown solutions, yielding with hydrosulfite and caustic soda brown vats which dye cotton strong and fast reddish-brown tints.

10. The herein described new vatdye-.

thraquinone nucleus, one of the nitrogen In Witness whereof we have hereunto valences being fixed in the 6-position of siguled our names this 7th day of May 1923. the naphthalene'"irucle'uSmf'thMnthraquiHPMhLt11g presence of two subscribing Witone-beta-naphthazine, -and the other in nesses alpha position of the second anthraquinone nucleus, the said (lyestufis constituting a darkred-brown powder, insoluble in water, solublein concentrated sulfuric acid to a brown solution, yielding with hydrosulfite and caustic soda a brown vat which dyes cotton strong and fast reddish-brown tints.

WILHELM MOSER. JAKOB WURGLER.

Witnesses:

AMAND BROWN, LUGIEN PICARE- BERTRAM MAYER. 

